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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100

A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.

What is free verse?

100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100

A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)

What is stanza?

200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

What is ABAB ABAB?

200

A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.

What is an ode?

200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200

________poetry expresses a person's state of mind or attitude. (Think of music)

Lyrical Poetry?

300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300

What figurative language tool is used to hear sound? "BAM", "SPLASH" "ZOOM" "CLICK"

What is a onomatopoeia ?

300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300

Where a line of poetry ends.

What is a line break?

400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400

What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

What is repetition?

400

A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.

What is a sonnet?

400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400

Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart

What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?

500

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

What is personification?

500
What is the rhyme scheme? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500

A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.

What is a ballad?

500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500

What form of poetry is this? Why?

is typically written to praise a person, event or thing (you could write an ode to your pet or favorite food!) and they are usually quite short in length

ODE